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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.

I've got nothing to hide; the bank account I use on-line only has money in it when I have to pay for something from it; and I don't give a flying f*** about cr@p like reputation and image.

So there's not much that these data-slurping wankers can do to hurt me, and I've got no real reason to hide behind a bushel.

But that's not the point.

It's the violation.

I've never been burglarised, but I know that it traumatises people, knowing that some stranger has been in their house, going through all their private, personal memories, just to cold-heartedly steal whatever they can sell.

Knowing that uncaring, contemptuous eyes have stared at your precious mementos is an absolute violation. A little piece of your heart is broken, each time. It can only hurt people, and can do no good.

And that is exactly what the data slurpers do. If people were aware of everything they slurp, everything they look at, everything they touch, they would light torches and burn the b*st*rds down.

"Do no evil", my arse.

The very root of everything google does is evil; it's evil all the way town to its rotten, filthy, disgusting core.

Well, this article is about datasets from breaches made by hackers. Of course, if companies weren't collecting the info then there would be nothing to "breach".

I find this quote at the end of the article incredibly naive, as if a law would mean anything:

Quote:

Until then, we’re left relying on the promises of corporations who’ve repeatedly proven their privacy promises aren’t worth all that much.

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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

I thought to myself "What's the point of keeping them off-line?", but then I read the article, and realised that the person writing it barely even knows what a computer is, let alone what difficult terms like on-line and off-line mean.

Linux is swiss cheese. Back when I had access to Vupen via a shared account the commercial product exploits had an expiration date internally called EOL (End of Life) when disclosure occured. Interestingly the Linux exploits appeared to be perpetual until public disclusure. Some of them were available for over 3+ years. I always assumed it was because of some legal issues. Nobody owns Linux so there is nobody to answer to.